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Basingstoke Heritage Society

Articles from ‘The Harrow Way’


The Viables Community Association publishes a quarterly magazine called “The Harrow Way” which is delivered free of charge to all residents in living in the Viables ward. In each edition of this magazine they publish an article relating to an aspect of local historical interest. By kind permission of the Editor of “The Harrow Way” we are reproducing below, most of these articles:

The Harrow Way

Skippetts House

Basingstoke’s Sea of Glass

Hackwood Park

Horse Racing on Basingstoke Down

A Cemetery Brought Alive

Missing Milestone Mystery

Thomas Burberry

Golden Lion Mystery

Basingstoke’s WWII Defences

A Summer Stroll

History on a Wall

Tragedy at Viables in 1911

Audleys Wood

Perambulations

Coombehurst School

Brighton Hill

John Byng


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